[moneydance] 64-bit Linux

[Doug B]

On Sun June 3 2007 1:44:51 pm Lawrence Kalmakoff wrote:
> I know that, somewhere in the past, there have been discussions about
> various bumps in the road to installing on Linux - I just can't find
> anything that relates to my situaltion.
>
> I have been using Moneydance, very successfully, on a 32-bit installation
> of Linux.  Recently, for various reasons, I moved to Ubuntu 7.04 AMD64
> version. Now I am having difficulty installing Moneydance, please see the
> following messages:
>
> No suitable Java Virtual Machine could be found on your system.
> Do you want to download a JRE? (y/n)
> y
> Downloading JRE with wget ...
> --14:35:36--
> http://moneydance.com/download/install4j-jres/linux-x86-1.6.0_clie
> nt_only.tar.gz
>            => `jre.tar.gz'
> Resolving moneydance.com... 65.23.157.170
> Connecting to moneydance.com|65.23.157.170|:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> Length: 16,574,443 (16M) [application/x-gzip]
>
> 100%[====================================>] 16,574,443   287.67K/s    ETA
> 00:00
>
> 14:36:34 (279.80 KB/s) - `jre.tar.gz' saved [16574443/16574443]
>
> Unpacking JRE ...
> Preparing JRE ...
> ./moneydance_linux_x86.sh: 346: bin/unpack200: not found
> Error unpacking jar files. Aborting.
>
>
> Now I know, if this was a Debian package, I should be able to use the
> following to install:
>
> sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture packagename_i386.deb
>
> Anyone out there have success in installing on 64-bit Linux?
>

I'm not running MD on a 64 bit machine, but I have some 64 bit experience.

All the MD downloads for Linux seem to be x86, not 64 bit.  It may still work, 
but you will need to point MD to a 64 bit java.  The above suggests it was 
trying to get and install an x86 version of java.  I've not used Ubuntu, but 
I assume it has a 64 bit version you can install if you don't have it 
installed already.

If MD doesn't see the 64 bit jre when you install it, tell it no to 
downloading a jre.  Then create a sym link ( ~/moneydance/jre ) that points 
to your 64 bit jre.

Those are the steps I would take, but I can't try them here.

There are also 32 bit compatibility libraries available so you can run 32 bit 
apps, but I can't help you there.  Someone else here might be able to or the 
Ubuntu site might be of help.

Doug